Today, we’re happy to announce that the PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Beta will kick off for PlayStation Plus members on PS3 tomorrow, October 16th and expand to everyone October 23rd through PlayStation Store! What’s more, as a special treat, PS Vita users will be able dive right into the multiplayer beta starting tomorrow – no Plus subscription required. The Beta will support Cross-Play, so PS3 and PS Vita owners will be able to fight with and against each other.

So what will be in this limited Beta?

You’ll be able to play as Kratos, Sweet Tooth, Colonel Radec, Sly Cooper, PaRappa, and Fat Princess.

You’ll be able to play in both the Metropolis and Hades stages.

You’ll be able to try out four-player online tournaments and 2 v 2 online tournaments. For the 2 v 2 games we’ll be supporting friend invites, so you and a friend can fight another team online.

This, of course, is only a tiny fraction of what PlayStation All-Stars has to offer, but we thought you’d love the chance to try it early and see what all the buzz is about. Be sure to hop on quickly as we’ll be ending the Beta on October 30th!

But that’s not all. As you know, we have a pre-order program running right now that unlocks a set of exclusive costumes in the game. Today we’re happy to unveil the rest of the costumes you’ll be getting with your pre-order of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.

Unlocked with your pre-order at participating retailers, these costumes will work for both the PS3 and PS Vita when it releases on November 20th, so be sure to reserve your copy today. And don’t forget: PlayStation All-Stars features Cross-Buy support, so if you purchase the PS3 version, you’ll get a downloadable PS Vita version for no extra cost.

With Beta access beginning tomorrow, we look forward to getting your feedback on the game and seeing what you think of this highly anticipated title. Spread the word and we’ll see you online!

Will the preorder codes be in the receipt or inside the game case? Because I didn’t get any preorder content from LBP vita and was really dissapointed to get none. Apparently, futureshop had no idea about the preorder content

The pre-order costume code will be on a voucher (printed or emailed to you) if you pre-order the game from participating retailers. So in order to be safe, stop in at a Gamestop and pre-order the game to guarantee your pre-order voucher today!

1.Ive been waiting my whole life for this game.
2.How come Raidens new skin looks like old-school Dante in a Raiden costume?
3.Is there any word on the size of the Vita beta, so we know how much we have to delete from my Vita’s etc.

1. So have I! And it’s just around the corner!
2. They both just happen to have beautiful hair. There’s nothing wrong with guys who have flowing blonde locks! And while they may look similar, I guess that’s the curse of male video game characters that have long, flowy hair.
3. The Vita beta is under 600mb. Delete and let the games begin!

I am a huge fan of 7 or 8 of the brands their characters are used in. Plus I have been playing soul caliber and supersmash bros since I have owned my 64 and first touched the dreamcast. Really excited for this new outlook on this brawler franchise. I think they know what they are doing, downloading the beta is the first thing I’m doing tomorrow! thanks!

I was dissapointed reading the article that i would have further wait for the beta since im not a PS+ but i continued reading and then saw vita owners get the beta same day PS+ so i will be playsing against them on the vita!!!!! AWESOME!!!!!!

man, now i wish i was a plus member. i’ve been waiting for this beta for months! although what caught me by surprise was my recent trip to my local best buy. i decided to play the PS3 that was there and there it was… a demo of PASBR! HOW LONG WAS THAT THERE???? anyway, after playing the game, i now have higher hopes for it. and hopefully, “20” won’t remain as the final amount of characters. Crash and Spyro FTW!!

I just want Crash Bandicoot, Kat (Gravity Rush), a Final Fantasy Character, a Disgaea Character (Prinny, Etna or Laharl), and a Dark Cloud 2 Character (Max or Monica, prefer monica since it needs females). Anyone else is cool, but thats what I wish for.
Now the preorders, how do we get it? Because I preordered LBP Vita a month before release and did NOT get my preorder DLC, and no one would help me even though I had 3 recipts as proof wigh the game. Point is, Canada better get it and, it better not be messed up like The LBP one, cause that was ridiculous, and no one cared.

By the way I’m getting the PS Vita Version, cause I want it physically for Vita. I’ll get the PS3 version later. One question, about online passes, will the online pass also be the code for the PS Vita game? Or will it be 2 seperate codes?

I think they shouldve had the ORIGINAL DANTE as a ALTERNATE COSTUME..hopefully his sister would be added as a DLC..along with GABE LOGAN,SETH,NATHAN HALE,SOLID SNAKE and ofcourse the MOST ANTICIPATED CHARACTER IN THIS GAME…CRASH BANDICOOT..THIS GAME WILL NOT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT HIM OR SNAKE >:/

YES! i can play again! im kinda bummed i have to wait a week to play it cause i dont have PLUS but another week wont kill me =) I can finally show my friends how awesome this game is! Those costumes! HELL YEAH

Also, please tell me the psn version will have a substantial discount for Plus members?

Its already pretty ridiculous that the psn digital version of YOUR biggest first party game of the year won’t have the retail preorder bonus, but it will be a slap in the face if you didn’t give Plus members a good discount on the digital version either.
And i don’t mean the pathetic 10% off you are giving on the day 1 digital games like 007 Legends. 30 to 40% off should be the least you can do for your own game.

But then again, Sony promised a discount on the digital version of Ratchet & Clank HD Collection but never did it (making them liars). :/

@83 yeah, why not give us classic Dante look? I guess they are trying their best to distance the new Dante from the original. Makes sense, considering how terrible this new DMC game looks compared to the original games.

Hopefully you’re still responding to questions or comments on here, but I shall try and gain your attention regardless. As of lately I have been noticing very recent titles making their way to the PSN very soon after release and in very recent events even some pre-orders. For example Assassin’s Creed 3, Modern Warfare 3, Dishonored, Resident Evil, Borderlands 2 and Devil May Cry HD Collection. Now I know I can’t be the only one who seriously prefers Digital copies to Physical ones, now my question is regarding this game I understand it will not be available for pre-order on PSN; however will it be available upon release in the digital version? I really hope so, i’m tired of games pulling the Call of Duty method and going “Oh, what’s that? Modern Warfare 3 is about to be released in 2 weeks, let’s finally release Black Ops 1 on PSN.. Because everyone is gonna want to pay $59.99 for a 1 year old game when the newer one will be out in a few weeks!” As an example of last year around Fall 2011, I have a larger capacity HDD in my PS3 and would really love to get to fill it with games and not movies and music. Any information you have regarding digital copies will be great appreciated!!

You think Superbot could talk Eat Sleep Play into letting Sackboy from ps all-stars use the same costume program from the LBP franchise.Sackboy has too many costumes that a lot of people may want.It would be awesome if any lbp costumes bought would be compatible with his character.Get the word out..

Any chance that some of the other characters are added? I’m itching to play as Raiden, Dante or Nariko. Or at the very least, maybe on the demo? Lastly, how are there no PixelJunk characters in the game, Ariel! ;)